{"id":48639,"date":"2021-10-07T21:14:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T15:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/gunmen-strike-in-sgr-again-school-principal-teacher-killed\/"},"modified":"2021-10-07T21:14:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T15:44:30","slug":"gunmen-strike-in-sgr-again-school-principal-teacher-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=48639","title":{"rendered":"Gunmen strike in Sgr again: School Principal; Teacher killed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Famous chemist among 7 civilians killed since Oct in Sgr; Killing of unarmed civilians an attack on age-old communal harmony in Kashmir: DGP Dilbagh Singh, says police have got clues, killers to be nabbed soon; MEA condemns killings; say concerned about cross-LoC militancy, discussing issue at various platforms<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Srinagar, Oct 07 : <\/em><\/strong>Unknown gunmen once again struck in Srinagar and killed two government teachers including a female head of the institution in a city school on Thursday.<\/em><\/p>\n

Police said that the gunmen fired at the principal of Government Higher Secondary School, Sangam, Eidgah, in Srinagar and her male colleague, leaving them dead on the spot. A police official told news agency\u2014Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that the slain were identified as Supinder Kour, who was the principal of the institution and her colleague Depak Chand. \u201cKour hails from Rengipora, Beerwah, presently living at Aloochibagh area of Srinagar while Deepak is a resident of Jammu,\u201d police said.<\/em><\/p>\n

Soon after the incident senior police officers including DGP Dilbagh Singh, IGP Kashmir Vijay Kumar, IG CRPF Srinagar sector Charu Sinha visited the spot. A teacher, who seemed in shock, told KNO that they were in a separate room when they heard the gunshots. \u201cWe didn\u2019t go out because of fear. When locals reached the area only then we went out of the room and found principal madam and our colleague lying flat on ground with blood oozing from their wounds,\u201d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

Talking to reporters, after meeting the shell-shocked staff members of the institution at Sangam, Eidgah, the DGP Singh said that killing of unarmed civilians in Srinagar is a move to damage and attack the age-old traditional communal harmony in Kashmir and police has already got some clues about previous killings and will also probe the fresh incident too. He, however, was quick to add that the killers will be nabbed very soon.<\/em><\/p>\n

Talking to reporters outside the Government Boys Higher Secondary School Sangam, Eidgah, Srinagar, the DGP said that killing of innocent civilians reflects \u201cfrustration and barbarism.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an attempt to defame local Muslims of Kashmir. Killing innocent civilians including teachers is a move to attack and damage the age-old tradition of communal harmony and brotherhood in Kashmir,\u201d the J&K Police chief said, as per news KNO. He said killing innocents is a conspiracy to \u201ctarget local ethos and values\u201d which will be defeated by the police and people collectively.<\/em><\/p>\n

He said that police have got some clues and leads about the killers in previous cases and that the fresh case will be probed too. \u201cI talked to staff members of the school and they are in total shock over losing two colleagues. Police will nab the killers very soon,\u201d he said. Pertinently, today\u2019s incident is the third since October 2 in Srinagar district. Since October 2, seven civilians including a famous chemist Makhan Lal Bindroo, a non-J&K vendor, three local civilians and two teachers including a school principal were killed by the unknown gunmen.<\/em><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Ministry of External Affairs stated: \u201cWe strongly condemn such attacks. We are worried about cross border militancy and are discussing the issue at various platforms.\u201d The statement was issued by MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi on recent militant attacks in Jammu & Kashmir\u2014(KNO)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Famous chemist among 7 civilians killed since Oct in Sgr; Killing of unarmed civilians an attack on age-old communal harmony in Kashmir: DGP Dilbagh Singh, says police have got clues, killers to be nabbed soon; MEA condemns killings; say concerned about cross-LoC militancy, discussing issue at various platforms Srinagar, Oct 07 : Unknown gunmen once […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}